James Purdy Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canadian National Talent Lead for Breakthru Beverage and Kindred Partners.Here to bridge Sales Talent across both Bev-Alc and Cannabis industries.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Management:
• Leading Global Talent Acquisition Partners, attracting talent in IT/non-IT disciplines across all geographies.
• Facilitating development conversations and build recruiter capability (business acumen, partnering & influencing skills) and create a strong sense of unity and engagement
• Conducting training of recruiters, identifying specific relevant learning opportunities in order to practice and implement effective consultative and recruitment skills
• Set team performance… Show more Management:
• Set team performance goals and metrics, timelines and a formal tracking process to measure and manage progress (Lattice)

Etobicoke, Ontario

• Strategic Talent Partner to Weston Foods providing thought leadership on local recruitment strategy for Canadian Operations. Scope of my involvement include Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Logistics.
• Acting lead to 3 Recruiters - providing influence, guidance, and support on Hourly Talent Hypercare Initiatives
• Managing operational programs as directed to ensure that HR needs of the organization are being met and are… Show more
• Managing operational programs as directed to ensure that HR needs of the organization are being met and are aligned with all business objectives nationally
• Collaborating with the HR Delivery & Hiring Managers to adapt talent management strategies to best fit each market and position for both Internal employees and external talent. Often making recommendations for local.
• Acting advisor to ISC leaders and Delivery Team by providing guidance, direction and advice on succession planning, employment related issues, performance management, Team Member engagement, compensation, and learning.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Specializing with technical hiring for both Engineering and Sales divisions across the globe (international recruitment)
• Championing recruitment sourcing in remote regions in the Netherlands, APAC, LATAM, and EMEA
• Aided in HRIS migration from Taleo to SalesForce: Responsible for JIRA assignment, UAT, security and training material
• Lead training surrounding HireRight screening services and Salesforce HCM Recruitment module to Sandvine teams
• Brand Ambassador: Represented… Show more
• Brand Ambassador: Represented Sandvine at regional recruitment events (Communitech), Campus days and onsite community engagements.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for High-Volume, Full-Cycle Recruitment (including all administrative aspects of the recruitment process) for 3 distinct and reputable advertising agencies (Blue Hive, Wunderman/Blast Radius) in Toronto.
• Partner with internal hiring managers on requisition needs: creating hiring profiles, identify candidate sourcing strategies that attract and qualify talent, and facilitate the interview process.
• Strategically engage with the business to anticipate and proactively plan… Show more
• Strategically engage with the business to anticipate and proactively plan for key positions.
• Secondary shared service support to HR Matters and inquiries.
• Mentoring HR Intern on full-cycule recruitment and onboarding procedures.Accomplishments:

Toronto, Canada Area

• Human Resource Management (Recruitment & HR Planning):
• Handled for full-cycle Recruitment (background checks, offers) and internal Talent Management.
• Partnered with executive management on hiring/business strategies & headcount, strategic capabilities for the future, and succession planning for talent gaps on future projects.
• Provided Quarterly reports on HR Analytics: Comparatio, Turnover, Employee Utilization, etc.
• Immigration Sponsorship applications for LMIA (LMO) and US… Show more Human Resource Management (Recruitment & HR Planning):
• Immigration Sponsorship applications for LMIA (LMO) and US Travel letters where necessary.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for external recruitment within Supply and Logistics for Labatt, nationally across Canada.
• Plan and manage recruitment for all positions within Supply nationally for Canada; including manpower planning, candidate sourcing, skills & culture assessing, short-listing, scheduling interviews and offer negotiation.
• Centralized reporting on all vacancy activities utilizing Pivot Tables via MS Excel.
• Establish and manage relationships with external recruitment suppliers;… Show more
• Establish and manage relationships with external recruitment suppliers; developing and communicating strategy to ensuring consistent delivery & cost efficient services to the business.
• Provide HR advice to hiring managers on employment legislation, internal HR policies & procedures

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for managing both internal and external recruitment nationally across Canada.
• Plan and manage recruitment for all positions within Supply; including candidate attraction sourcing, skills & culture assessing, short-listing candidates, scheduling interviews and offer negotiation.
• Maintain confidential personnel data transactions including: on-boarding, pay changes, position changes, terminations, and other information as required within SAP database.
• Track all… Show more
• Track all recruitment activities utilizing MS Excel to generate reporting on HR KPIs.
• Monitor and plan hourly manpower requirements based on forecasted production demands.

• Manage multiple recruitment contracts for large client accounts in the I.T., financial, CPG and manufacturing industries; Responsible for IT recruitment.
• Manages full lifecycle recruitment including confidential sourcing of talent utilizing my professional associations of networks and other social media facets to generate a pool of potential applicants.
• Assiting in preparing offers of employment. Conducting reference checks, extending offers, and completing Employment Agreements… Show more
• Assiting in preparing offers of employment. Conducting reference checks, extending offers, and completing Employment Agreements.
• Managing and coordinating communication with candidates, hiring managers and HR leaders.
• Conduct regular follow-up with hiring managers to determine the effectiveness of their recruiting planning and implementation.

Honours B.Arts, Industrial Relations & Ccit

Diploma, Digitial Communication, It, Visual And Graphical Design